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accidentally slipping into macro furry bullshit and going "oh, you name your pet rocks?" to astronomers

jimmy neutron is actually composed of three jimmy quarks, held together by a james bond

Did you know that adding a single layer of old books to your walls can insulate an average home from the terrible reality of the world outside.

So... after almost a decade of failure in the online regulation space, perhaps some legislative navel gazing is finally about to take place...

I encourage every single person negatively affected by the #OnlineSafetyAct to submit evidence here:

https://committees.parliament.uk/work/9955/the-online-safety-act-implementation-and-impact/news/217266/online-safety-act-inquiry-launched-by-committee/

If your freedom of expression, security or privacy has been curtailed in any way, however minor, submit evidence.

That includes people who have been forced to submit data to unregulated third party age verification processors.

That includes people who have had to remove content from their blog or website for fear of censorship and legal harassment by Ofcom - an unelected quango.

That includes people who have felt that their speech or artistic expression has been limited.

I will be submitting evidence as a website/service operator.

#OnlineSafetyAct

@Aaron @xssfox how Jack Black should have looked in the Minecraft movie

@matttutt I'll never stop talking about capitalism's consequences. Naomi Klein shows in The Shock Doctrine how the ruling class uses crises, wars, disasters, collapses to push policies that wouldn't pass otherwise. Disaster capitalism.

Fires are natural, but the scale is not. Monocrops for profit. Fossil fuels for profit. Hollowed out communities. The system turns a natural cycle into a catastrophe.

We keep fighting, naming the system, and building what comes next. Solidarity ✊❤️

@foone I'd want to put these lines in day-order, but there's still too much wrong

if only there was a better way to do this

@alex free food, lazing in the sun

only have to forget "I'm future ham"

@anarchiv hadn't thought about the origin, but they're something every kid's encouraged to grow at some point

maybe because they're so big, obvious & fast growing

One's on the bottom, strong is he!
Two's in the middle, carrying Three!
Three's pretending not to be
Three kobolds in a trenchcoat!

🎶

inside you are two wolves and their 839 legitimate interest data partners.

@levork generated code could never have comments of "I'm leaving this function here, nothing uses it any more but the customer will want this functionality back in a few weeks, so don't delete it"

@belehaa it's enough to drive anyone to marker pens, roll of acetate & the overhead projector

"no slides, I'm annotating live, keep up"

I've switched to another symposium for the next talk

The speakers are trying to get to their PowerPoint slides to show them, and it is like seventeen steps of two-factor and Microsoft redirects to websites they don't need (like opening a Copilot tab when they just want PowerPoint)

Microsoft is the WORST

#BCCE2026

@qurlyjoe there's a time & a place for the fancy coffee

drinking instant on the regular 'cos it's quick & easy, while keeping some nice beans in as a treat

Corvid demonstrating their tool usage

@floppyplopper reminds me of

"thinking about the time I went to a planetarium & somebody booed when they showed earth"